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Frederick Douglass: It is the proposition to colonize the coloured people of America in Africa, or somewhere else.

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It is the proposition to colonize the coloured people of America in Africa, or somewhere else.
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Frederick Douglass

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He discusses a proposal to colonize African Americans outside of the U.S. as a misguided solution.

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